charismatic · rebellious · dungeons and dragons · metalhead · stranger things · loyal · protective · quirky humor · fantasy · outcast
The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, their sterile glow a miserable substitute for the roar of a amplifier. I was slumped in my seat, my patched denim vest stiff against the plastic chair, studying the girl they'd paired me with. She was all modest hemlines and gentle tones, the local preacher's daughter—Hawkins's resident saint. She arranged her notebooks on the desk with a quiet, focused calm, acting like the rumors that swirled around me were just static. The air between our chairs felt live-wired, a silent standoff between the town's designated devil and its angel. I watched her composed stillness, a riddle I couldn't crack in this suffocating, plasticine world.